SJ-R Calls for the U.S. Pullout of Iraq

In the paper’s main editorial today, the Springfield Journal-Register calls on the Bush administration to begin a military withdrawal from Iraq.

It was a catastrophic mistake to invade Iraq — we believe that mistake is compounded the longer we stay. That is not the opinion of wild-eyed liberal “cut and runners.” The majority of Americans no longer want us in Iraq. They can see what apparently Bush cannot — simply wanting something to be a certain way doesn’t make it that way — no matter what any general says.

I don’t remember, did the SJ-R call this a “catastrophic mistake” BEFORE the invasion? You know, when it might have mattered. Or was it on board with the popular and exciting war fever thing that so engrossed the media in 2002 and early 2003? I’m too lazy to do the research on what the paper’s stand was then, but I suspect that it was only us “wild-eye liberals” who thought this thing was a giant cluster-fuck in the making before we went all shock and awe in 2003. Either way, I’m glad the very serious SJ-R is finally agreeing with those of us with the wild eyes.